Amber Gill’s mother has called ITV2’s welfare team after the ‘Love Island’ star received a barrage of "death threats" online.
The 21-year-old beauty therapist – who is currently taking part in the ITV2 reality show, where she is coupled up with Michael Griffiths – has become victim to online abuse from trolls, and the star’s long-time friend Martin Tweedy, who is currently running Amber’s social media accounts, has spoken out about the disgusting messages to protect Amber’s mental health and revealed that her mother has had to contact the aftercare team.
He said: "In the first two or three days, when Amber was portrayed as this stone cold b***h, her mum actually rang the welfare team and used their services and they talked her round.
"So I totally get that people may not get Amber, or she may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but looking after her social, I’m having to deal with these kinds of messages daily.
"I think initially I just thought to myself if she gets to the final, this is eight weeks that she’ll have been in solitary confinement without her friends and family’s support.
"To come out of those eight weeks to an inbox full of hate and death threats, and things like that, I just thought something needs to be done here."
And Martin went on to reveal that a 13-year-old boy sent Amber an abusive message containing the word N-word, and subsequently told his parents and school.
He added to Metro.co.uk: "I used the email address on his profile to search for his Facebook, and I sent a screenshot to his mum, his dad, and his school. Two can play at that game.
"I’m not letting people get away with this anymore, it’s 2019 and it’s disgusting that people think they can get away with that kind of thing."
Amber Gill’s mother called ITV after star received ‘death threats’
